Enforcement

The online payday lender violated a 2019 consent order by debiting consumers' bank accounts without the consumers' consent, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said.

The eight-year-old penalty stemmed from traders at the bank colluding with counterparts at other large banks to manipulate dollar and euro prices.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau alleged in a lawsuit that the nonbank lender violated a 2019 consent order and submitted incorrect information in 2020.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to hire 75 employees in its enforcement division as it boosts investigations against "large market actors," according to an internal email obtained by American Banker.

The Federal Reserve took action against a small bank in southern Illinois whose exposures to interest rate changes left it with negative equity last year. The enforcement action comes as regulators review their oversight practices following Silicon Valley Bank's failure.

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors ordered FMB Bancshares to implement significant management changes and capital restructurings in 2009.

The Federal Reserve terminated a 2016 agreement with the Industrial Bank of Korea and its New York branch for processing more than $1 billion in sanction-violating transactions.

The revised policy increased maximum penalties for the largest banks, outlined stronger accountability measures and expanded the OCC's authority to restrict business activities.

Eagle Bancorp in Bethesda has agreed to pay $22.9 million to regulators to settle claims it failed to report loans totaling $99 million made to founder Ron Paul, who will pay more than $500,000 in fines in addition to being barred from the industry.

The allegations against the $559 billion-asset bank are similar to those brought against Wells Fargo related to its 2016 fake-accounts scandal.

The Justice Department, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and three state attorneys general alleged that Trident Mortgage, a lender owned by Berkshire Hathaway, engaged in redlining and discrimination in the Philadelphia area.

The credit reporting agency is trying to get a CFPB lawsuit dismissed by claiming the consumer bureau didn’t sign off on a 2017 consent order for the same violations.

The Department of Justice is prosecuting ex-JPMorgan Chase bankers under federal racketeering law, a move public interest advocates hope could lead to more accountability for financial firms.

Current regulations barring out-of-state banks from siphoning deposits from local communities are effectively toothless, as the experience in Miami has shown.

The agency said the risk management program for Cenlar FSB, which performs servicing functions for financial institution clients, was inadequate for the bank's size.

The agency’s enforcement action against a Virginia nonprofit is seen as reining in income-share agreements, which give students tuition in exchange for future wages and which critics complain have evaded scrutiny. Clearer regulatory guidance could solidify ISAs’ legal viability, proponents say.

The agency’s enforcement action against Better Future Forward says the nonprofit’s income-share agreements — an alternative education finance product — must follow the Truth in Lending Act just like other forms of student loans.

Critics of consolidation say the Federal Reserve and other agencies are too quick to greenlight bank deals. But the truth is banks face many hurdles to merger approval, and they don’t bother to apply — or take a hint and withdraw their applications — if they can’t clear them all.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development and Federal Housing Finance Agency, which supervises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, formed a pact to share information and coordinate investigations of potential fair-lending violations.

The inquiry involves employees' "business communications sent over electronic messaging channels that have not been approved by the firm,” JPMorgan Chase says.